Patrick

Ironically (perhaps), I have observed better professionalism in research practices outside of academia than I have inside of it. Very much agree with your points about the failings of the open science movement.

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.

Facebook allegedly detected when teen girls deleted selfies so it could serve them beauty ads

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Isn’t this the guy that did the fake tweet about the 90-day pause

recognized the Ursula breakfast burrito immediately. thank god for that burrito being in NYC

time for Senator Tim Onion

Don't do that. Create a persisted database file in a secure location (since we're working with Medicare files), and then `use` that db. That'll allow you to spill to disk for larger-than-memory operations. I do this all the time for my work on medical claims data.

Six men charged after forcibly removing woman from North Idaho town hall The Coeur d'Alene City Attorney's Office has filed charges against six men involved in the forced removal of a woman at a Kootenai County town hall in February.

oh hey welcome to your trial, blackshirts

As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption

Rest easy, Val. It’s a moral imperative.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.

Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

After running into this at work, it requires the following extensions: json, autocomplete, httpfs, and icu. After putting those into your .duckdb dir it works just fine!

After President Trump's inauguration last month, he has steadily signed a slate of executive orders to keep these education promises: combatting critical race theory, DEl, gender ideology extremism, and discrimination in admissions. President Trump has also been focused on eliminating wasteful bureaucracy and harmful programs in the federal government. To that end, today he signed [Executive Order XYZ, entitled "Eliminating the Department of Education,] which has given us a clear and final mission. We are to identify which of the Department's functions, programs, and offices are not mandated by statute, and eliminate them. This reorganization will impact staff, budgets, reporting, and more —and in coming months, we will determine how it can be accomplished with minimal delay and disruption. The President further tasked us with creating a plan to reallocate and reassign functions of the Department of Education that would be more effectively managed by other agencies. This plan will offer Congress a road map toward fulfilling the expectations of the President and the American people. The new vision—which I hope each of you will embrace going forward—can be expressed as four main convictions: Parents are the primary decision makers in their children's education. Students deserve to be protected from physical violence, racial discrimination, medical tyranny, and gender extremism ideology on campus. Postsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs. Taxpayer-funded education should refocus on meaningful learning: proficiency in math, reading, and core subjects, and patriotism in American history and civics. As we move to reduce the Department's middleman role in education, these four convictions must guide us toward conscientious and pragmatic action. The elimination of bureaucracy should free us, not limit us, in our pursuit of these goals Removing red tape and bureaucratic barriers will empower parents to make th

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.

I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.

Here is a portion:

Screenshot of Thomas Chatterton Williams’ Bluesky profile, where a “Jesse Singal Follower” label is visible and circled in red by the screenshotter.

Still remains best indicator of asshat behavior

Get bent, Peter Baker. They are our neighbors, not political playthings. You have actively made this country worse with your “reporting”. What “news” is there here? This is nothing but dangerous speculation. I would say shame on you, but I don’t think you have the capacity for shame.

Meme from Arrested Development where Tobias says “I mean, these people somehow delude into thinking it might, but it might work for us”

playbook for the last 30 years going strong

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

why are these people just plain evil?

don’t give them ideas Hank wtf

On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.

The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.

The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.

they want all trans people to detransition or die and everyone who led us to this point has every last bit of that blood on their hands

Don Cheadle appearing on Saturday Night Live in 2019. He is about to introduce the musical guest. The stage is behind him, audience members behind him have their backs to him. He is looking into the camera. He’s wearing a baseball cap of some kind and a dark shirt with the phrase PROTECT TRANS KIDS in white letters across his chest.

THIS IS ILLEGAL.

He literally does not have legal authority to do this. Do NOT obey in advance.

Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy

is it uncharitable to say, i hope the new york times leadership gets not one moment of peace after this

screenshot of Mark Cuban's name and username on Bluesky with a "Jesse Singal Follower" label underneath

incredible bat signal

utterly insane

children of the chatbot prompt

this truly is the everything app that was promised